From: Carl Yost Jr. (yostc@sunpenguin.net)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2008 - 22:03:39 ARST
Granted my schedule is going to get worse but on the weekends I lab for
4-5 hours Saturday and Sunday. During the week I lab and read 2-3 hours
each night. During lunch I read through the labs I did the previous
night and take all my notes. My wife is pregnant so we don't do to much
until the weekends so the weeknights are prime time for me.
One thing I won't stop doing though is working out. If I don't work out
I can't focus, my mind becomes scattered. If I don't work out I don't
sleep well either. I try to make sure each night I get 7-8 hours a sleep
or my brain will not retain anything through out the day :D. I have to
watch for burn out or I will just start to resent everything about the
exam...
I don't think anyone but yourself can tell you what your schedule should
be. Only you know yourself well enough to know what is going to work for
you and what won't.
Scott Vermillion wrote:
> In all seriousness, I did give up nearly all of my favorite distractions for
> the period of Sept - Feb. I do not watch television (oh, Letterman and
> Discovery HD occasionally) or movies (less than 1/yr is probably about my
> lifetime average). I did give up (more or less) my beloved collection of
> Cubans, which if properly smoked, can chew up two or three hours of an
> evening. Perhaps this contributed to my reaching that burnout phase,
> though? I don't really know for sure. But I can tell you that once I got
> back up on that horse in early Jan, the final four weeks were focus, focus,
> focus and I was no longer bothered with any nagging, lingering symptoms of
> burnout; I was actually more or less enjoying myself again. During this
> time, I gave up my thrice-weekly trips to the gym (possibly a mistake) and
> my kids started bringing dinner to my desk and clearing it for me an hour or
> so later (and that was generally the one meal a day I managed to get in). I
> followed my own advice and dropped off the list, e-mail, and landline/cell.
> It was not a pleasant lifestyle and not one I look forward to readopting
> anytime soon. All I can say for sure is that my little rebellious phase and
> the break it led to were ultimately what allowed me to regain my focus and
> to get my head out long enough to see that train (aka "The Beast") barreling
> down the track, ready or not (they take the brakes out of that sucker 28
> days before it comes smashing into the terminating station)!
>
> And Rik is telling you the flat truth. He predicted back in August with
> cunning accuracy what I had laid in store for myself and how it would all
> unfold (no swap for a December date for me, eh Rik?). So listen to him if
> not to me, he's pretty well got this routine dialed in...
>
> Cheers all,
>
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Joseph Brunner
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 3:32 PM
> To: 'keith tokash'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: Study schedule
>
>
>> On weekends I almost never go anywhere, just alternate between lab work and
>> taking Netflix + food breaks.
>>
>
> Why I suspect I needed 4 trips to get my number, while Scott Vermillion only
> needed 1.
>
> You need to drop all the extraneous bull shit.
>
> Your morning routine is also garbage. Here is my answer to you.
>
> Leave your house EARLY (by 4:30am). RUSH to work.
>
> DO all your studying BEFORE anyone gets in. by 10am you HAVE all your
> studying done for the day. Anything else is gravy.
>
> Study at little more, perhaps the debugs you captured during your lab study
> in the early morning. Makes notes... now take all the notes you made at
> lunch to the doc cd in the afternoon. If you study at night, only study the
> doc cd. On the weekends, sleep in. don't get up to early. Your body will
> have a sleep debt you need to pay off each week. At about noon, hit the lab
> hard with full 8 hour labs. End the weekend days with reviewing your
> configs, and debugs. Take notes as you go through them. Resolve any
> uncertainties with the doc cd.
>
> This is my study routine for the next three.
>
> You'll never get anywhere with netflix.
>
> Just a friendly help.
>
> -Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> keith tokash
> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:38 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Study schedule
>
> Dear Abby,
>
> I hate to say this, but I'm really burning out here and would like to
> compare
> notes a little. I wake up at 5.30am each weekday, but I'm a slow riser so I
> may not quite make it out of bed right away. Average time to start lab work
> =
> 7am. I go until 9-9.15am, then head to work. I get home about 6-7pm (3
> mile
> commute) and get about 1.5 hours of lab time in. On weekends I almost never
> go anywhere, just alternate between lab work and taking Netflix + food
> breaks.
>
> I've been doing this for about 3 months now, with another 6 months of
> various
> other schedules before that, and I'm starting to have more and more trouble
> focusing, and I'm losing my patience more as well. Of course I'm becoming
> more and more fun for my wife to deal with on the side.
>
> Does anyone have any type of advice or schedule that worked for them? I
> don't
> suppose it helps that I'm normally really busy at work too, so I can't study
> there, or take time to play video games like some sysadmin types seem to
> have
> time for. At this point I'm really having trouble just finishing the last
> two
> tasks in my current lab on account of wanting to take a nosedive off my
> balcony. I'm thinking a week off might do wonders, as I have a bootcamp
> scheduled for March 17th, but I hate to lose the time (May 20th lab date).
>
> With a few exceptions, secrecy is deeply incompatible with democracy and
> with
> science.
> --Carl Sagan
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